The group that served Diego Velázquez did not want to break any kind of ties with Cuba and in order to get out of exile, they denounced Cortés’s conquest plans. The Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz was born from a conflict
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Letters from Mexico, Hernán Cortés.According to historical data from the General Archive of the Nation, a dependency that keeps alive the documentary memory of Mexico, Cortés decided to establish a settlement that would become the first city hall of Mexico at that time, by orders of the governor of Cuba, Diego Velázquez was prohibited from establish a permanent establishment. The Conquest of New Spain, Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Quotes from Díaz and Cortés are from the following sources: La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz April-July 1519.In 1599, the city was moved to its present location. A sign in the crotch of an old tree says that Cortés tied his ships there. The locals point to "the first church" and Cortés' house, a beautiful roofless vine-entangled ruin. No signs direct tourists to the ruins of the old fort or the nearby Totonac city.Īfter the conquest, in about 1524, the city was moved south to the present town of La Antigua, which in the popular imagination is incorrectly thought to be the original site of Veracruz. Today it is an obscure fishing village, Punta Villa Rica. The conquistadors built their town-the first European settlement on the American mainland north of Panama-on a bay near Quiahuiztlan. Shortly after, at Quiahuiztlan, Cortés cajoled Totonac leaders into arresting five Aztec tax collectors after that, they were in open rebellion against the leaders of Mexico, and whatever their misgivings, they had to hope for protection from their new sovereign, King Charles of Spain.
When the conquistadors entered the Totonac capital of Cempoala, they were greeted with cheers and flowers. The Totonacs, however, may already have been looking at the Spaniards as potential allies against the Aztecs, to whom they had recently become subject. Aztecs came bearing food, feathers, cloth, gold, servants to build temporary shelter for their "guests," and the clear expectation that the newcomers would take the loot and go home when the Spaniards continued to hang around, their hospitality cooled. They had been sent to trade and explore Cortés intended to conquer and colonize. But it was never more than a camp, and the foundation of a city was a legal fiction designed to change the nature of the expedition. It was founded by Cortés and his band on the sand dunes where the modern city now stands. The city of Veracruz has been moved three times. Cortés himself was the first to start carrying earth and stones and to dig the foundations and all of us, captains and soldiers alike, followed his example La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz - Conquest of MexicoĪs soon as we had made this treaty of alliance with the rulers of these twenty or more hill towns known as the Totonacs, who had now rebelled against the great Montezuma, sworn allegiance to His Majesty, and offered to serve us, we decided with their ready help at once to found the city of Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz on a plain a mile and a half from this fortress-like place called Quiahuitzlan.
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